Word: regionalization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Valley of Death last week flew the 800. They were South Vietnamese troops being lifted by a company of U.S. H21 troop-carrying helicopters to clean out a Communist-infested jungle hideout 175 miles northeast of Saigon. The region was a tangled, menacing battleground, whose name, like Tennyson's Balaclava, derives from its bloody history in South Viet Nam's ugly guerrilla war. As each flight dipped into the tiny landing zone, an escort of twelve rocket-carrying UH 1-B ("Huey") choppers sprayed the scrubby underbrush with rockets and machine-gun fire. Not a single...
This delay, ironically, caused the first Buddhas to be made on Roman models. The earliest known figures date from the 1st century and come from the ancient Indian region of Gandhara. The Gandhara artists were imported from the thriving cities of the Near East, and when faced with the problem of inventing a Buddha image, they fell back on the Greek and Roman image of Apollo dressed in a kind of Roman toga. They probably borrowed the halo from the traditional Iranian sun disk that symbolized the heavenly light of Ahura Mazdah. For Buddha's ushnisha-the bump...
Whether granny can catch up to the Press is something else again. "We're going to give all competition unmitigated hell," says Seltzer. "This newspaper is going to remain the newspaper in this region, period." Under Seltzer's guidance since 1928, the Press has become a real community force in Cleveland. It mother hens its citizens from birth to dotage with a Toddler's Club, free dances for teenagers, 50th wedding anniversary parties. Democratic Senator Frank Lausche admits that the Press helped make him mayor of Cleveland and Governor of the state, and Seltzer can also claim...
Fidel Castro's Caribbean island is the most conspicuous display of Communist penetration in Latin America, but it is far from the whole show. In remote corners and pockets of the hemisphere, there are places where the Communists are either in effective control of a region or very near to it. One such corner is the ruggedly scenic Mexican state of Michoacán, on the Pacific coast north of the resort town of Acapulco (see map). Admits one of the state's own officials: "What we have here is a well-cultivated Communist zone...
...fairytale romance of the rich, widowed white rancher to the penniless darky daughter of one of his squatter tenants. It began in 1961, and had Pygmalion overtones. In his iron-roofed big house, Fuller-Sandys, like Henry Higgins, daily gave Margaret lessons in the social graces of the region. Margaret learned to speak and read, slowly mastered the assembly of cutlery for a four-course dinner. For hours, teacher and pupil pored over arithmetic primers, encyclopedias and fashion magazines. One evening Fuller-Sandys gazed at her in a special way; she said yes-and in English. Promptly Fuller-Sandys called...